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When spiritual exploration groups face doctrinal influence

Our book club has been reading spiritual texts for two years and it's become really meaningful to all of us, but one member recently joined a specific religious tradition and now approaches everything through that lens, which is making some of the others uncomfortable with the direction of our discussions. We don't want to exclude anyone but we also don't want to lose the open exploration that drew us together.

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